The (Co)Production of Difference in the Care of Patients With Cancer From Migrant Backgrounds

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ID4645704
AuthorsAlex Broom (0000-0003-1258-1140, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, corresponding author), Rhiannon Parker (0000-0003-2156-3980, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Stephanie Raymond (0000-0001-8195-0363, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Emma Kirby (0000-0001-9754-0342, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Sophie Lewis (0000-0003-4639-217X, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Renata Kokanović (0000-0002-4308-3403, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), Jon Adams (0000-0002-9901-5717, University of Technology Sydney), Jonathan Adams (0000-0003-3890-4630, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Paul De Souza (0000-0002-7380-1170, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Lisa Woodland (0000-0002-1431-0849, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), David Wyld (0000-0001-9523-4333, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), Zarnie Lwin (0009-0006-5009-4895, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), Eng-Siew Koh (The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Eng‐Siew Koh (0000-0002-1664-2513, Liverpool Hospital)
Year2020
Volume30
Issue11
Pages1619-1631
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732320930699
PMID32564713
OpenAlexW3036205441
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited49

An extensive body of scholarship focuses on cultural diversity in health care, and this has resulted in a plethora of strategies to "manage" cultural difference. This work has often been patient-oriented (i.e., focused on the differences of the person being cared for), rather than relational in character. In this study, we aimed to explore how the difference was relational and coproduced in the accounts of cancer care professionals and patients with cancer who were from migrant backgrounds. Drawing on eight focus groups with 57 cancer care professionals and one-on-one interviews with 43 cancer patients from migrant backgrounds, we explore social relations, including intrusion and feelings of discomfort, moral logics of rights and obligation, and the practice of defaulting to difference. We argue, on the basis of these accounts, for the importance of approaching difference as relational and that this could lead to a more reflexive means for overcoming "differences" in therapeutic settings

Business · Default · Feeling · Focus group · Health care · Intrusion · Moral obligation · Obligation · Political science · Reflexivity · Scholarship · Significant difference · Social science · Sociology · Cultural Competency in Health Care · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology

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